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Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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The Elixir ecosystem is growing incredibly well. I am impressed both from an engineering and a product perspective. It shows that they are playing the long game. I think they are achieving what I wished happen to the Clojure ecosystem: productive, well designed, respected and popular. Clojure missed the last step, unfortunately.

I agree, and I think their move into ML is a genius move that is going to make elixir mainstream. I'm super excited for the future.

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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This is awesome! Starting it up from the terminal and going to the url was not super convenient for quick tasks and scripts, this is much better. Edit: one thing that would make it even nicer is if it would remember the folder and/or recently opened notebooks.

Why would you use a notebook for quick scripts though

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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This is awesome! Starting it up from the terminal and going to the url was not super convenient for quick tasks and scripts, this is much better. Edit: one thing that would make it even nicer is if it would remember the folder and/or recently opened notebooks.

Why would you use a notebook for quick scripts though

I often need to inspect/transform some JSON/CSV/text/whatever data, move around/organize a bunch files, and similar things. I find that notebooks work great for that as you don't need to set up an environment, you can easily collect and rerun your scripts if you do need them again, and the output options are great for debugging and looking at data.

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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How many layers can we do!! I’m guessing elixir to JavaScript to v8 or whatever the js vm was called in chrome. Then jit then binary.

Communicating over a network or one of those chrome sockets to an elixir or erlang vm so someone else can manage your data.

Life is good

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The window it runs in.

Is this required in some OS and not another? A comment in this thread claims it just uses a browser tab.

It's used for the desktop app, as you can see here[1].

[1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034e...

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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post #25

How many layers can we do!! I’m guessing elixir to JavaScript to v8 or whatever the js vm was called in chrome. Then jit then binary. Communicating over a network or one of those chrome sockets to an elixir or erlang vm so someone else can manage your data. Life is good

Not quite, this is just your standard server side rendering for providing a convenient GUI alongside your erlang vm. There's no layering here, just bundling of things that are usually distributed separately (editor and vm).

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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No Linux download :-( Nevertheless it's fairly easy to install[1]. If you have docker, you can just run the image to try it out: docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 --pull always livebook/livebook You may want to configure some things, so check out the options[2].: If you want a "native" install, after you have elixir installed you can use mix escript.install hex livebook and start it with livebook server Check out…

> No Linux download :-(

They discussed it, but no one has taken it on yet. I think Wojtek Mach(the desktop initial author) is a mac user, and they actively wanted to provide a way for windows users to easily try it.

Re: Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

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post #25

How many layers can we do!! I’m guessing elixir to JavaScript to v8 or whatever the js vm was called in chrome. Then jit then binary. Communicating over a network or one of those chrome sockets to an elixir or erlang vm so someone else can manage your data. Life is good

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